Centrifugal machine.



No. 842,258. PATENTED JAN. 29,1907.

I '1). T. SHARPLES. GENTRIFUGALMAGHINE.

APPLIOATIQN FILED 00T.18, 1906 III I TED STATES;

PA NT O FI E.

DAVID TOWNSEND SHARPLES, OF EST CHESTER, PENnsrLvANiA.

' GENTRlFUGAL MACHINE. i

Specification of Letters Patent.

I Patented Jan. 29, 1907. i

Application filed October 18,1905. flerial No. 283,203- i 'To all whom/it may conccrni:

'Be it known that- 1, DAVID TOWNSEND- SRARPLES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of WestChester, county of Chester,

. State of Pennfisylvania, have invented certain new and .use Improvements in Centrifugal Machines, of-which the following is a specifica ion. 7

separators; and it consists in an miproved means of feeding the supply liquidthereto,

whereby a lateral'pressure' is exerteduponthe rotatmg vessel to facilitate the steady producing a suitable lateral pressure 'upon the latter to facilitate its maintenance in the;

' friction and wear upon the contacting mev natural axis of rotation.

The invention is fully described ill-connectron with the accompanying drawing and is 1. The combination specifically pointed out in the claims.-

.. The drawing illustrates 'my invention as applied to a wellknown form of machine in which -a tubular suspended vessel is em ployed, such "parts only of the machine being indicated as are required to make clear the,

apphcation and operation of my improve-"- ments.

The rotary separator vessel.1,' as shown, is

suspended by means of a shaft 2'fro1n a top bearing 8 in the machineeframe 'and is, .pro vided with-an axial feed-opening 4 atits free lower end and with suita 'le exits, as usual,

the compoun li ui 0 erated upon. The driving means in icate comprise a worm wheel 5 and an engaging worm 6 on the separater-shaft, such cominonly-eilxliployed means being merely selected for ustration as showing the application ofthe force to one side of t e axis of rotation in suchka manner as to produce more. or less lateral push upon the separator shaft during opera- .SS iOn.

My invention relates to centrifugal ranging the feed-nozzle relative to the vessel as to nt lize-the'force of the inflowingjet in for dischargin the se arated constituents of,

su li'uid to the separator vessel tl irough'the fee '4 opening 4-1 employ a suitable feed-nozzle 10, which is-connected by a feed-pipe 11 to a feed-regulator cup and reservoir as usual, so as to furnish a uniformhead of liquid; In orderto utilize theforce of the inflowing jet from the nozzle in steadying the rotation ofthe se aratorvessel in its natural axis-of rotation, arrange the nozzle at an incline to such axis, so as to discharge into the feed opening 4 across the axis thereof and at an obtuse angle againstthe wall of the opening,the direction of the incline being such as to thereby exert a lateral pressure or push upon the vessel opposite to that exerted by the driving means as above described and the degree of incline being adapted to produce the amount'of such lat- 'eral pressure desired. To provide iorproperly reirlating the latter,-.the feed-nozzle 18 prefera ly'ad'jnstably secured "to the machine-frame, as indicated, thereby peI'IDili'r tin the setting-of the nozzle to the proper inc ine. Bythusprovidingfortheutilization I of the inflowing jet in neutralizing a swaying 8o action incident to the operation of the vesse Y the-steadylihg of its motion in the normal axis of rotationis greatly facilitated and'the' chine parts correspondingly reduced. e3 .Whatlclaimisp with a vertically- 5;. mounted centrifugal liquid-separator vessel having one end thereof free to swing laterally and said end rovided'with an axial feedinlet,.of a rel dtively fixed feed-nozzle adjacent to said-feed-inlet and arranged at an incline thereto. whereby the inflowing- 'jet s adapted to exert a lateral pressure in deter-. mined direction upon the freeiend' of the vessel. I '.1

'2. Thecombination with }a verticallymounted centri-Iugal li uid separator vessel having one end thereof cc to swinglate'rally andsaid end'provided with an axial f'eed' inlet, of a vfeed-11022 8 and means-foread'ustably securing. the same in determin in clined osition relative to aidIieed-inlet substantia 1y asand'icr thepu ose set torth." 1 T "In testimony whereof'l f imysig'nature in the presence of two witnesses.

' 1 1mm TUWNSENI) 'SHARPLES. Witnesses: p

v 'B. W. HAINns. 7 MAY R. S'rEmrAN. 

